War-weary Britons last fortnight read these piquant
queries in their favorite columnNat Gubbins' "Sitting on the
Fence" (TIME, Dec. 18)and settled down to learn what "Dr.
N. Gubbins, the notorious Fleet Street quack," had to say on the
subject of psychoneurosis :

"A man once told me that he shrank
from meeting people's eyes and asked me why. I told him he was probably
a crook.